AF-embeddings into C^*-algebras of real rank zero

Abstract: It is proved that every separable

C^{*}

-algebra of real rank zero contains an AF-sub-

C^{*}

-algebra such that the inclusion mapping induces an isomorphism of the ideal lattices of the two

C^{*}

-algebras and such that every projection in a matrix algebra over the large

C^{*}

-algebra is equivalent to a projection in a matrix algebra over the AF-sub-

C^{*}

-algebra. This result is proved at the level of monoids, using that the monoid of Murray-von Neumann equivalence classes of projections in a

C^{*}

-algebra of real rank zero has the refinement property. As an application of our result, we show that given a unital

C^{*}

-algebra

A

of real rank zero and a natural number

n

, then there is a unital

^{*}

-homomorphism

M_{n_{1}} o p l u s ... o p l u s M_{n_{r}} o A

for some natural numbers

r, n_{1}, ..., n_{r}

with

n_{j} g e n

for all

j

if and only if

A

has no representation of dimension less than

n

.

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